Evaluation of the Italian transport infrastructures: A technical and economic efficiency analysis

S Sergi Bruno; Vittorio D'Aleo; Roberta Arbolino; Fabio Carlucci; David Barilla; Giuseppe Ioppolo

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104961

Evaluation of the Italian transport infrastructures: A technical and economic efficiency analysis

Land use policy. 2020 Dec:99:104961. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104961. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

Authors

S Sergi Bruno¹, Vittorio D'Aleo², Roberta Arbolino³, Fabio Carlucci⁴, David Barilla¹, Giuseppe Ioppolo¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Economics, University of Messina, Piazza Pugliatti, Messina, 1, 98122, Italy.
² Business Analyst at Invitalia SPA, Roma, Italy.
³ Department of Social and Human Science, University of Naples "L'Orientale", L.go San Giovanni Maggiore 30, Naples, 80134, Italy.
⁴ Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, Fisciano, SA, 84084, Italy.

Abstract

•The deregulation process played a key role in terms of airport efficiency.•The technical efficiency of 32 Italian airports has been evaluated•The methodological approach has been twofold: DEA and Tobit model•The main results show that efficiency is independent of an airport's size.•The findings highlight the decisive role of public shareholders in small airports.

Keywords: Airports; DEA; Italy; efficiency scores; privatisation programme; productivity.